Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

Final Report of the Louisiana
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59TH CONGRESS, 1st SESSION DECEMBER 4, 1905--JUNE 30,
1906 SENATE DOCUMENTS VOL. 14, 1906
SENATE: 59TH CONGRESS: 1st Session DOCUMENT No. 202
FINAL REPORT OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION
COMMISSION 1906 FEBRUARY 8, 1906 READ, REFERRED TO
THE COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITIONS, AND

ORDERED TO BE PRINTED WASHINGTON, GOVERNMENT
PRINTING OFFICE, 1906
CONTENTS.
Letters of transmittal Final report Centennial Day Diplomatic Day State
Day Appendices: Report on Accounts and Statement of Receipts and
Disbursements Disposal of Salvage Reports of Foreign Countries
Reports of States, Territories, and Districts Report of Board of Lady
Managers Statement of Expenditures

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State
submitting the final report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Commission, furnished in pursuance of section 11 of the "Act to
provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase
of the Louisiana Territory," etc., approved March 3, 1901.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. THE WHITE HOUSE, _February 8,
1906._
* * * * *
The PRESIDENT:
The undersigned, Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the
President the final report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Commission, presented, as required by section 11 of the act of
Congress approved March 3, 1901, entitled "An act to provide for
celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Louisiana Territory by
the United States by holding an international exhibition of arts,
industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and
sea in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri."
Respectfully submitted.
ELIHU ROOT. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, _Washington, February 5,
1906._

FINAL REPORT OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION
COMMISSION.
As required by section 11 of an act of Congress entitled "An act to
provide for the celebrating of the one hundredth anniversary of the

purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States by holding an
international exhibition of arts, industries, manufacturers, and the
products of the soil, mine, forest, and the sea in the city of St. Louis, in
the State of Missouri," approved March 3, 1901, this final report is here
presented:
In the early part of the year 1900 the citizens of St. Louis inaugurated a
movement looking to the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary
of the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory by an international
exposition. A temporary organization having been effected, the subject
was presented to Congress through a committee of citizens appointed
for that purpose. Congress conditionally approved the enterprise by
enacting a law which in substance provided that the Government would
extend the required aid to the proposed exposition, providing the
petitioners would furnish assurance that the sum of $10,000,000 had
been raised for and on account of inaugurating and carrying forward an
exposition at the city of St. Louis, Mo., in the year 1903, to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana
Territory.
Prior to March 3, 1901, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company,
then consisting of an association of persons, furnished the Secretary of
the Treasury proof to his satisfaction that said sum of $10,000,000 had
been raised for the purpose indicated. Thereupon the act hereinbefore
cited was passed and duly approved by the President.
Including the appropriation made by the act of Congress, the sum of
$15,000,000 was provided for the exposition, as follows:
Donated by the city of St. Louis ...................... $5,000,000 Subscription
to the capital stock of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company ......................... 5,000,000 Appropriated by Congress,
through the act aforesaid ... 5,000,000
On April 1, 1901, in accordance with section 2 of the act of Congress,
the President appointed a nonpartisan commission, consisting of nine
members, known and designated as the "Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Commission," the names of the appointees and the States in which they
resided being as follows:
JOHN M. THURSTON Nebraska. THOMAS H. CARTER Montana.
WILLIAM LINDSAY Kentucky. GEORGE W. MCBRIDE Oregon.
FREDERICK A. BETTS Connecticut. JOHN M. ALLEN Mississippi.

MARTIN H. GLYNN New York. JOHN F. MILLER Indiana. PHILIP
D. SCOTT Arkansas.
The name of the Commission being somewhat lengthy it became
known and was referred to